He is this team's most attractive asset, given his age and potential. His contract -- two years and $31.5 million left (counting a team option for 2012-13) after this season -- is something other teams could work with.

Think about it. Bynum is the Lakers' only viable trade asset at this point, at least in making a significant deal. Lamar Odom has some value certainly, but who else? And we mean real value, not Luke Walton-type value.

The Lakers aren't trading Kobe Bryant or Pau Gasol and who would want Derek Fisher or Ron Artest right now, even though Artest is affordable?

The issue, of course, is Bynum's shaky health, the reason we'd move him in an instant in the right deal. So package him up, Mitch, with whoever else is necessary to make the salaries work, and ship him out.

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